Tuesday, February 4

About the class: user-centric, creative design (.pdf)
Symbol design and exercise results

Design for human use: Uncommon common sense!
Ballot redesign and results!

meet the client:
Class introduction and wrapup (.pdf), Project brief, and overview from the client (.pdf)

What's in a name results!

Visualization: ABCs of sketching
Online visual memory game
In-class visual memory test

Video resources:
Sketching basics tutorials (arcs, lines, circles , ellipses)
One-point perspective tutorials

Website, schembsite!
Web design 101, wireframe, html and css basics (.pdf)
Web design 101, Zen garden (.pdf)

Web design 101 resources

Sketching in 3D: 2 pt perspective

Video resources:
Basic shapes in 2 point perseptive
Download worksheets

Adding dimension to perspective:
Tone and shade

Video resources:
Basic shading and tone video and worksheets

It's a wrap:
Shade and tone, Canson drawing

Canson drawing video resources (Pencil sharpener exercise):
Laying in the base tone (.mov, 17.7 Mb)
Pencil highlights (.mov, 10.7 Mb)
Pencil shade (.mov, 12.1 Mb)

Sketching with Scott Stropkay, Essential design

Examples of sketching in practice (.pdf):

• use scenarios (certificates required)
• exploration of ideas (certificates required)

Sketching demonstrations:

• horizon and scale
• 1 point cube
• circles on cubes
• 2 point cube
• 2 point circles
• scale in 2 point
• 3 point
• 1 point vs. 2 point
  

See additional examples by Scott Stropkay.

Fast and furious:
Immersion in sketch modeling
critique feedback

Interactive game brainstorming and prototyping

Beth Sullivan, IC3D
Sketch modeling (.pdf, 6 Mb!)
Example: blue foam models (.mov, 2.3 Mb)
Example: foam core models (.mov, 1.5 Mb)
Example: large scale models (.mov, 3.8 Mb)
Sketch modeling tools (.mov, 1.2 Mb)

Blue foam: cutting basics/templates (.mov, 6.1 Mb)
Blue foam: complex shapes (.mov, 10.1 Mb)
Blue foam: applying a grill template (.avi, 6.5 Mb)
Blue foam: cutting grill (.avi, 11.1 Mb)
Blue foam: making a sanding block base (.avi, 2.1 Mb)
Blue foam: attaching sand paper (.avi, 2.1 Mb)
Blue foam: using sanding block (.avi, 7.1 Mb)

Foamcore: know the grain (.mov, 4.2 Mb)
Foamcore: bending (.mov, 6.3 Mb)
Foamcore: joining (.mov, 6.4 Mb)
Foamcore: making a box (.mov, 4.8 Mb)
Foamcore: making large panels (.mov, 4.7 Mb)

Work period

Judgement day: Sketch model review with client

the messenger of expereince: form and color

Form development exercise (I am an emotional cube)

the messenger of experience: form and color

Color exercise (I am an emotional picture)

Exercise resources
- a few Photoshop pointers (.rtf)
-Photoshop color exercise file (.psd)
- color psychology (.jpg)
- upload your emotional artwork (name format: yourFeeling_yourUsername)

the messenger of the experience: graphics

Graphics design exercise

Exercise resources
dafont.com
photoshop pointers

out of the box: Packaging design

packaging design exercise